15
Principia, bk. iii. Prop. 37, Corollaries, 2 and 3. Motte’s translation, vol. ii. p. 310.
16
Roscoe’s Spectrum Analysis, 1st ed. p. 296.
17
Philosophical Transactions (1859), vol. cxlix. p. 94.
18
Watts’ Dictionary of Chemistry, vol. ii. p. 393.
19
Philosophical Transactions (1859), vol. cxlix. p. 119, &c.
25
Philosophical Transactions, (1856), vol. cxlvi. pp. 330, 331.
26
First Annual Report of the Mint, p. 106.
27
Jevons, in Watts’ Dictionary of Chemistry, vol. i. p. 483.
28
British Association, Glasgow, 1856. Address of the President of the Mechanical Section.
CHAPTER XIV. UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT.
1
Pelicotetics, or the Science of Quantity; an Elementary Treatise on Algebra, and its groundwork Arithmetic. By Archibald Sandeman, M. A. Cambridge (Deighton, Bell, and Co.), 1868, p. 304.